Husain Sattar – Best advice for teachers

Many, many, many. Years later, I was studying in Islamabad at an

institution, and I happened to be have finished the seventh year,

and I was going into the eighth or final year. And the eighth or

final year, that's year every many of you are aware of. It's called

Dara Hadith. It's a very, very famous year. It's a very, very

important year. It's sort of the essential year. Yeni. What they

say is that the seven years was preparation for the eighth year,

and that's really the end point of the studies in the Darcy Nizami,

which is basically that you get to this final level in which you

prepare and you study for Hadith. It's like being in the company of

the Prophet. Saw isa Lam for a year. Essentially, it's as close

as you can come, because all of the various Ahadith are recited

and they're studied, then you're just constantly in the remembrance

of the time of the Prophet, sallAllahu, sallam. So when this

eighth year comes, people are very much desirous to do the eighth

year in the company of the most pious and famous people that you

can find. So when I was studying in my seventh year, there were

989, students, just a handful. It was a tiny room. We would be

sitting in there, and those students would just be around in

this corner, you know, sitting around us. And then

at the end of the seventh year, or towards the end of the seventh

year the students, they began to discuss, and they started saying,

so where are you going, and where are you going, and where are you

going? And everybody had a different place. One person said,

Oh, I'm going to darulum Karachi, and I'm going to sit in the

gatherings of Mukti Toki with money, and I'm going to this

place, and I'm going to sit here. And one person said, I'm going to

dioban, then I'm going to sit here. So everybody had a different

place where they were going to go, and a handful of people were going

to stay, and they came to me and they said, so where are you going?

So I said, I'm not going anywhere, because I came from very, very

far, and I really had nothing, and Allah created this opportunity for

me, and this is my teacher, and I'm going to be with this teacher

until the very end. Now, the students, they thought I was

crazy, and the reason they thought I was crazy was because that year,

the sheik hadith is the name of the highest teacher, the highest

level teacher, who actually is responsible for teaching Bukhari.

So the Shaykh Hadith, he had retired that year, and they hadn't

yet found a sheik Hadith for the for the next year. I said, it

doesn't matter. I came here. I benefited from here. My Sheik sent

me here. I'm staying here. And then what happened was, after he

retired, they appointed another person to be Sheik Hadith, and

this teacher was an amazing, incredible teacher, who prepared

and was so honored to be in that position that he came every day to

class. He came on time. He came fully prepared, and he was super

excited. So to you know the teachers, one aspect of a teacher

is the experience of a teacher. Another aspect of the teacher is

how much a teacher desires to be there and feels honored to be

there and wants to teach. And this person who taught me Sheik Hadith.

There were six people in the class, five, six, handful of

people in the class. He would be lecturing, as if 3000 people were

in the room. He would lecture. He would sit there. He'd be screaming

on top of his lung and so excited and doing this and doing that. And

seven people are sitting in front of him, sometimes four people,

depending on who's sick that day. He's talking through the wall.

He's talking through the wall because he was so honored to teach

that year. And I will tell you that I benefited from that teacher

in a way that I have not benefited from any teacher in my whole life.

Because, I mean, I have had many teachers, you know? I mean, I'm a

professor myself. I teach many, many people, and I have not

benefited from any teacher the way I benefited from that teacher, to

the extent that the way I teach is very much a replica of the way he

teaches. And the funny thing is that now I teach much more dunya

way knowledge than I do Dini knowledge. I'm a professor, and

I'm in a medical school, and it's one of the top medical schools in

the country, and I teach pathology, which is a subject in

medical school, which is like the essential subject in the second

year of medical school. And I teach students. I teach students

all over the world, and I use that. I use many, many, many of

the things that I observed in this teacher to teach my own medical

students. Now, obviously I'm not teaching them Dean, but I'm

teaching them some aspects of how they can benefit humanity. But

that same energy, that same dedication, that same speaking

through the wall, you know, talking beyond who's there, I had

that same I applied those exact same principles in the way that I

teach, and essentially it defined me. It defined me because of that

interaction. And so that few months of sitting there has

affected 10s of 1000s of medical students, students all over the

world. Every year, I will tell you, I can tell you at least 10 to

15 because I wrote a medical textbook, and I also have lectures

that go with that textbook. At least 15,000 medical students

every year learn from me and what.

Who are they really learning from? They're learning from me. They're

learning from that teacher who was teaching six people, because I

learned from him so and people come to me all the time, they say,

where did you learn to teach like that? How come you teach like

that? Nobody teaches like that. So where did what? How come you're

teaching like that? So I didn't learn to teach like that here. I

learned to teach like that at the base of the Himalayas, you know,

in a room and with six people, and which the whole building probably

cost $20,000 let alone that, you know, the two the $50 million

building that I teach in right now. So

the this is the mechanism by which you take advantage of opportunity.

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